Yesterday I went to the Game Fair to chat to Andrew Gilruth of the GWCT in front of a fairly full audience in the Carter Jonas marquee. I’ve been going to the Game Fair for years, my first was over 30 years ago and I’ve never turned down an invitation to attend. A couple of…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Wild Justice’s Hen Harrier Day broadcast
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A week next Saturday, at 10am on 7 August, Wild Justice is broadcasting a programme about the uplands. Much of it will be live, and hosted live by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin, but we’ve been recording interviews with quite a wide range of people too. We’re being a bit coy about who they are…
Sunday book review – The Eternal Season by Stephen Rutt
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This is a lovely book about summer, and particularly the summer of 2020, the summer of covid. There is much about wildlife, particularly, but not just, birds, of climate change and how that affects the wildlife around us and of the special constraints and disruptions of lockdowns. There are some great accounts of wildlife observations,…
Today – I’m going to the Game Fair
Tomorrow I’ll blog about it and other things, and bring you a book review too.
This week
No book review this week as I have been writing a book more than reading a book, although I am confident of publishing at least one book review next Sunday. In other news: I saw my first Gatekeeper of the year but butterfly numbers are very low this year I saw my second Hen Harrier…
Sunday book review – Ecology and Natural History by David Wilkinson
This is a very interesting read. It is an exploration and an explanation of ecological principles illustrated by UK natural history, much of it through strolls through particular parts of our farmland, forests and uplands. This approach works well, and it is a different type of New Naturalist from most recent additions to this venerable…
Football’s coming – to a glorious finale on Sunday evening?
My week: I’ve had a busy week this week but an enjoyable one. It’s been one of those weeks where several things have all demanded my time: Wild Justice discussions with lawyers, accountants, donors and each other; World Land Trust papers for the next trustee meeting; the first visit of our five-month-old grandson to our…
Sunday book review – Moorland Matters by Ian Coghill
I enjoyed reading this book very much. It immediately gets into my list of books of the year although I’d be surprised if it gets to the top of that shortlist, but you never know. I enjoyed it for three main reasons. First, it is a good read, clearly expressed and argued with some passion…
Wild Justice, the Shooting Times, the general licences and DEFRA.
The Shooting Times published an article in February where a regular columnist wrote about going out one day in January and shooting 10 species in a day – the ‘Perfect Ten’. Wild Justice reported this activity to DEFRA (see this Wild Justice blog) and have updated the situation (see this Wild Justice blog) with the…
Vote for the right Emily Williamson
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Learn about the role of Emily Williamson in the protection of birds, and vote for the statue to commemorate her campaigning work.